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Acute Rheumatic Fever
Introduction Rheumatic fever (RF) is an acute, diffuse, and nonsuppurative inflammatory disease that occurs as a delayed complication after an untreated or partially treated pharyngotonsillitis, the infection itself sometimes being asymptomatic. It is caused by group A β-hemolytic S treptococcus…